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[Nephew Twiddleton]

I wonder what an anthropologist would say.

He's sitting at home with the popcorn watching this thread.

Well, tell him to fucking spill it.  Are they an ethnic group, culture, what?

I would welcome his input, even if it contradicts anything that I'm saying.

Funny how a joke about the Welsh turned into this.

He may pop in. I dunno...he doesn't want to piss people off and cause a pointless fight.

It's not going to piss me off if I'm wrong. I don't want it to become a fight either.
Like I said, I'm considering doing this for grad school, when I get there at the age of 45 or whatever, so if I'm off the mark set me straight. If I'm kinda right, ok, cool. If I'm spot on, I won't complain.

Blight,
can admit if he was wrong if sufficiently pointed out

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ALRIGHT ALREADY

Yes, I am an anthropologist.

A great degree of my study focuses on the BLANKET GROUP KNOWN AS THE CELTS, which includes ANYBODY (yes, even VIKINGS, note that the true name of a VIKING is NORSE, to be a VIKing means you were "ON THE VIK" VIK meaning "TO RAID" in the old norse tongue), from Europe from the IRON AGE ON. Yes, they started out in the Halstadt region, and then branched out like the spokes of a bicycle wheel throughout the continent and beyond. Blue Macaw feathers have been found in burials, which suggests that there was trade with the african continent at the time.

NORSE=CELT
VARIOUS TRIBES OF THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT=CELT
FRANC=CELT
NORMAN=CELT
SAXON=CELT

I can go on and on, ad absurdum, but I won't.

DUBLIN was founded as a NORSE town before it was ever rebuilt into what became known as the City of Dublin.

The argument of INTERMARRIAGE is irrelevant, because they were ALREADY CELTIC.

If you were a Roman, good for you, still Celtic at the time whether you want to believe it or not.

EUROPE>IRON AGE=CELTIC

Done, I'm going back to my bowl of gruel now while I grumble around the fire, complaining about trade tariffs and the state of opera as it is today.


BAH! HUMBUG!

[Doktor Howl]

I've been telling everyone who will listen that they came out of India, like the Aryans.

I have no idea if any of that is true, I just like to feed random people bad data.

[LMNO]

But what about incoherent adoration of the Red Sox and movies about Charlestown?


I find your conclusions suspicious.

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I've been telling everyone who will listen that they came out of India, like the Aryans.

I have no idea if any of that is true, I just like to feed random people bad data.

Yes, I agree with this.

Misinformation from the interwebs causes hilarity to ensue and also spells doom for the academic system.

[0]

I've been telling everyone who will listen that they came out of India, like the Aryans.

Don't bring the injuns into this, it ended badly last time.

[Suu]

I wonder what an anthropologist would say.

He's sitting at home with the popcorn watching this thread.

Well, tell him to fucking spill it.  Are they an ethnic group, culture, what?

I would welcome his input, even if it contradicts anything that I'm saying.

Funny how a joke about the Welsh turned into this.

He may pop in. I dunno...he doesn't want to piss people off and cause a pointless fight.

What have you DONE to him, Suu?

I haven't done ANYTHING, he would just rather discuss this in person than over the internet, especially after the last anthropological "discussion" we had on this board in which he got involved.

I mean, if Doktor Blight wants to come down to Providence one day and sit and bullshit with Sir General Frungle, I'm sure it can be arranged. This is something that he does love very much and can talk for HOURS on. Hell, we get into debates about shit like this all the time. Mostly because historians like myself view things more romantically than an anthropologist/archaeologist. He wants facts, I'm fine with theories.

[Doktor Howl]

I've been telling everyone who will listen that they came out of India, like the Aryans.

I have no idea if any of that is true, I just like to feed random people bad data.

Yes, I agree with this.

Misinformation from the interwebs causes hilarity to ensue and also spells doom for the academic system.

IRL, too.

Of course, I've also convinced people that Lou Diamond Phillips was the pitcher on the same team as Babe Ruth, and that Ralph Waldo Emerson is a scholar who is currently being held without trial.

Cultural illiteracy:  It can work for YOU.

[Suu]

...I think he just told us all to STFU.

[0]

I wonder what an anthropologist would say.

He's sitting at home with the popcorn watching this thread.

Well, tell him to fucking spill it.  Are they an ethnic group, culture, what?

I would welcome his input, even if it contradicts anything that I'm saying.

Funny how a joke about the Welsh turned into this.

He may pop in. I dunno...he doesn't want to piss people off and cause a pointless fight.

What have you DONE to him, Suu?

I haven't done ANYTHING, he would just rather discuss this in person than over the internet, especially after the last anthropological "discussion" we had on this board in which he got involved.

I mean, if Doktor Blight wants to come down to Providence one day and sit and bullshit with Sir General Frungle, I'm sure it can be arranged. This is something that he does love very much and can talk for HOURS on. Hell, we get into debates about shit like this all the time. Mostly because historians like myself view things more romantically than an anthropologist/archaeologist. He wants facts, I'm fine with theories.

I'm fine with theories, as long as they have some founding to them, some reality.

What I love is "Well, I'm entitled to my opinion..."

To this, I offer the words of Harlan Ellison:

"No, schmuck, you are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your INFORMED opinion. Without information, it's just babble, hot air, and farts in the wind."

[Suu]

But what about incoherent adoration of the Red Sox and movies about Charlestown?


I find your conclusions suspicious.

I blame that on genetic mutation, not anything doing with cultural anthropology.

[0]

But what about incoherent adoration of the Red Sox and movies about Charlestown?


I find your conclusions suspicious.

I blame that on genetic mutation, not anything doing with cultural anthropology.

Fuck Sports.

[Doktor Howl]

But what about incoherent adoration of the Red Sox and movies about Charlestown?


I find your conclusions suspicious.

I blame that on genetic mutation, not anything doing with cultural anthropology.

Fuck Sports.

Baseball isn't a sport.  It's a way to make a half million people sit still for three hours.

[0]

God dammit.

I try to live peacefully, in harmony with the interdumpster, and Roger drags me back in.

[Suu]

I wonder what an anthropologist would say.

He's sitting at home with the popcorn watching this thread.

Well, tell him to fucking spill it.  Are they an ethnic group, culture, what?

I would welcome his input, even if it contradicts anything that I'm saying.

Funny how a joke about the Welsh turned into this.

He may pop in. I dunno...he doesn't want to piss people off and cause a pointless fight.

What have you DONE to him, Suu?

I haven't done ANYTHING, he would just rather discuss this in person than over the internet, especially after the last anthropological "discussion" we had on this board in which he got involved.

I mean, if Doktor Blight wants to come down to Providence one day and sit and bullshit with Sir General Frungle, I'm sure it can be arranged. This is something that he does love very much and can talk for HOURS on. Hell, we get into debates about shit like this all the time. Mostly because historians like myself view things more romantically than an anthropologist/archaeologist. He wants facts, I'm fine with theories.

I'm fine with theories, as long as they have some founding to them, some reality.

What I love is "Well, I'm entitled to my opinion..."

To this, I offer the words of Harlan Ellison:

"No, schmuck, you are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your INFORMED opinion. Without information, it's just babble, hot air, and farts in the wind."

What about the Newport Tower and it's keystones? Which you blindly attributed to being colonial until you saw them?

I won that one, ya windbag! Haha! I say...*clears throat* The croquet hoops look damn pretty this time of year.